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THE SHUBERT

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The Sam S. Shubert Theatre, named in honor of the founder of the Shubert theatrical empire, is one of the jewels in the Shubert Organization's crown. It opened on October 2, 1913, with Hamlet, starring J. Forbes-Robertson.

Prior to Crazy for You, the house's most recent tenants have been the musical Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story; and A Chorus Line, the multi-award-winning musical that became Broadway's longest-running show (6,137 performances).

Other 1970's productions included the Stephen Sondheim/Hugh Wheeler musical A Little Night Music, winner of six Tony Awards; Over Here, a musical about the Andrews Sisters; Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Seascape, starring Deborah Kerr, Barry Nelson and Frank Langella (Tony Award) as a lizard; and Ingrid Bergman's last appearance on Broadway in a revival of The Constant Wife.

Highlights of the 1960's included Barbra Streisand's Broadway debut in a small part in I Can Get It for You Wholesale; Anthony Newley starring in his own musical, Stop the World - I Want to Get Off; Craig Stevens and Janis Paige in Here's Love, Meredith Willson's musical version of the popular film Miracle on 34th Street; Barbara Harris, Alan Alda, Larry Blyden and Robert Klein in The Apple Tree, an offbeat, three-part musical by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick that won a Tony for Ms. Harris; Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme and Marilyn Cooper in Golden Rainbow, a musical version of the play A Holy in the Head; and Promises, Promises, the hit musical version of the film The Apartment with a book by Neil Simon, a score by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and starring Jerry Orbach, who won a Tony Award.

The 1950's brought Lerne and Loewe's musical Paint Your Wagon starring the veteran James Barton; Katharine Hepburn and Cyril Ritchard in Shaw's The Millionairess; Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer in Peter Ustinov's The Love of Four Colonels; Cole Porter's enormous hit Can-Can with show-stopper Gwen Verdon; Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream; Judy Holliday and Sydney Chaplin winning Tony Awards in the hit musical Bells Are Ringing; Gertrude Berg and Cedric Hardwicke in the comedy A Majority of One: Take Me Along, a musicalized Ah, Wilderness!, starring Jackie Gleason (Tony Award), Walter Pidgeon, Eileen Herlie, Robert Morse and Una Merkel.

The 1940's brought two Rodgers and Hart musicals - Higher and Higher and Ray Bolger in the smash By Jupiter; Al Jolson and Martha Raye in Hold on to Your Hats; Katharine Cornell and Raymond Massey in The Doctor's Dilemma; Mary Boland and Bobby Clark in The Rivals; Paul Robeson, Jose Ferrer, Uta Hagen in a brilliant Othello; Mae West in Catherine Was Great; Celeste Holm in Bloomer Girl; Bobby Clark in Sweethearts; Phil Silvers and Nanette Fabray in High Button Shoes; Rex Harrison (Tony Award) in Anne of the Thousand Days; the Lunts in I Know My Love; and the triumphant Kiss Me, Kate from the Century Theatre.

Gems from the 1930's: Fred Astaire in Gay Divorce; Walter Huston in Dodsworth; the Lunts in Idiot's Delight (Pulitzer  Prize); Rodgers and Hart's Babes In Arms and I Married an Angel; the Lunts in Amphitryon 38 and The Seagull; Katharine Hepburn's great comeback in Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story with Joseph Cotten, Shirley Booth and Van Heflin.

Space limitations prevent us from mentioning all the productions which have played this theatre.

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